The emergence of groups like this is due to three reasons:
1. The internet
2. The misinformation, sensationalism, and emotional manipulation in the groups themselves
3. A massive gap/amount of disinformation in mainstream media/lexicon/knowledge base
People are massively overestimating number 2, and massively underestimating number three. The general populace is not as stupid as people and the media like to think, it’s blatantly clear that there’s more to what’s going on than is encapsulated in the current public narrative.
TPUs are more expensive per model train then regular GPUs? I thought the point was they were way faster, which makes up for the cost. Data scientists using gpus usually can do the math on costs...
I think it is on topic. I’m tired of this company parading their “technical achievements” while simultaneously constraining humanities access to information
Sure they made Go. But where are the innovations in search and information retrieval? Where are new data products? Sure, they innovated on word embeddings. But If they are going to monopolize and control access to information, why are they doing such a poor job at it? I say this with some anger. This company affects all of us, and they are completely mediocre from a product perspective. I welcome the day when NLP gets good enough to where a competitor can rise. Until then, we are stuck with this abomination and arrogance.